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Bing Thom Foundation

Providing fundings for donees who are supporting the development of architects

C$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$100,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$315k · 8 repeat orgsC$492k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

C$315k
C$392k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    University of Calgary
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$57k · revenue +27%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    2× · 2017–2019 · C$48k · revenue +55%
  • VS
    VANCOUVER SYMPHONY
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$23k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROYAL ARCHITECTURAL INSTITUTE OF CANADA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$250k · revenue -32%
  • BC
    Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Fdn
    one grant, 2017 · C$110k · revenue +23%
  • CS
    Caravan Stage Society
    one grant, 2018 · C$16k · revenue -90%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Canadian Society for Asian Arts

Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities

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2
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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3
Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society

The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…

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4
Indian Summer Arts Society

Indian Summer Arts Society commissions and presents significant local national and international programming that catalyzes and inspires dialogue and global citizenship and reflects Vancouver's position as a harbour for diverse arts ideas…

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5
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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6
Vancouver International Open Spaces Sculpture Biennale

Staging a sculpture exhibition starting in october 2005 on public land through out vancouver parks and urban areas which promotes international and national sculptures. the exhibition increases the presence of art in the city of vancouver.…

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7
The Vancouver Art Gallery Association

The vancouver art gallery is a public art museum that showcases primarily contemporary works by bc canadian and international artists. as in prior years the gallery presents both touring exhibitions as well as exhibitions focused on the…

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8
Victoria Symphony Society

The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.

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9
Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Society

Conducts a competition to award scholarship to bc youth studying music. provide educational workshops master classes and seminars to young musicians in british columbia.

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10
Pro Musica Society of Vancouver

Vancouver Pro Musica Society's principal activities include presentation and promotion of new works by British Columbia composers. Since its inception in 1986 the organization has proudly presented hundreds of premieres by talented…

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11
The Coastal Jazz and Blues Society

Vancouver international jazz festival year-round jazz concerts and related educational programs.

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12
Victoria Summer Music Festival Society

The Victoria Summer Music Festival (VSMF) brings local Canadian and international musicians to Victoria to perform high-calibre chamber music. In 2024 the VSMF presented five evening concerts and one afternoon concert during July and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Calgary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE — C$151,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBuddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Fdn — C$110,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$56,819 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$48,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY — C$23,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCaravan Stage Society — C$16,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPOWELL STREET FESTIVAL — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPUSH FESTIVAL — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetChibi Taiko — C$5,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetVancouver Cantonese Opera — C$4,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWorld Vision — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRichmond Art Gallery Association — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…Canadahelps CanadonCanadian Online Givin…
United Way British ColumbiaBC6.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadahelps Canadon · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-04-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 819304536:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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